And the old 1.x releases are not going magically away with a 2.x release ;)
+1 for not having Android influence the decision On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > 2014/1/25 Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> > >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > On 2013-12-30, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> > >> >> Compress 1.x is at Java5, personally I don't think Java6 would give us >> >> any benefits. I don't know about the other improvements in NIO2 but the >> >> java.nio.file package looks useful for compress. >> > >> > In the meantime it has been pointed out to me that Android doesn't >> > support NIO2. I can imagine Android apps using Compress so this looks >> > like a good reason to hold back requiring Java7. >> > >> > Stefan >> > >> >> It's already possible to use most Java 7 language level features and >> compile to Android (https://github.com/yareally/Java7-on-Android). It >> would also possible to reimplement the needed classes (which is only >> SeekableByteChannel?) in nio2 using some kind of wrapper on top of >> Android's java.nio. >> >> We could still use Java 7 / nio2 and then make a plan for Android releases. >> > > +1 > > >> >> Damjan >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
